Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality. — Judy Cannato Copy Share Image
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the… — Chris Bowen Copy Share Image
Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I have lifted the veil. I have created life, wrested the secret of life from life. Now do you understand? From the… — Edward T. Lowe, Jr Copy Share Image
God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins… — Joe Copy Share Image
Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a… — Townes Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Growth is a painful process. If we’re ever going to collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we’re… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations—this is the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause. — Leo Errera Copy Share Image